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Motorola’s First Android, the “Cliq” With MOTOBLUR

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Motorola’s first Android phone was announced today by Motorola CTO Sanjay Jha at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco.  The phone is Motorola Cliq MB200, which looks like the same phone that was widely leaked as the Morrison.  Thankfully the toy-like bright blue trim featured in most of the leaked shots has been replaced by basic black.  Specs include: 3.1-inch HVGA touch-screen display 5 megapixel auto focus camera with geo tagging, video capture and 24 fps playback 3.5mm headset jack … Continue reading →

The Latest Carnival of the Mobilists

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Over at A Consuming Experience, Improbulus has just published this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, the weekly showcase of blog posts on mobile topics. This Carnival is full of event coverage. It’s a good chance to catch up with all those conferences that you didn’t have the time or budget to attend personally. There’s Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Future in Review and Mobile Design UK coverage and a preview of the upcomming Mobile 2.0 Europe. Carnival 177 has a lot more … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser Beta 2 – New Features and Performance Enhancements

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At CTIA yesterday, Bitstream has released a new version of the Bolt Browser.  It’s V. 0.94, also called Beta 2.  New features include: – Significantly improved BlackBerry scrolling speed and control – A new 3XL (extra large) magnification mode with content 33.3 percent bigger than in 2XL – Double tap approach to select links on touchscreen devices like the BlackBerry storm (eliminates inadvertent clicks) – Wi-Fi auto-selection as default option when Wi-Fi is both enabled and available – Save and … Continue reading →

The New Yahoo Mobile Web Portal Is Live

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Today at CTIA, Yahoo announced the availability of the new Yahoo Mobile.  It comes in the form of an iPhone app and as a mobile web site at new.m.yahoo.com. I’ve been playing with the web based version a bit and it’s pretty nice already and should be great once a few opening day bugs are ironed out. Yahoo Mobile is a very flexible and open web portal which allows you to add virtually any sort of content, including third party … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #166 at WIP Jam

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This week’s Carnival is at WIP Jam. It’s hosted by Caroline Lewko who has assembled a great collection of posts from the mobile blogsphere. Items include a look at the mobile privacy debate, LiMo, iPhone gaming, and an interview with Tomi Ahonen. Special congratulations to London Calling‘s Andrew Grill who won Post of the Week honors for his write up of last week’s Mobile Marketing Association event in London.  And thanks to Caroline for including my Ovi developer’s event piece. … Continue reading →

CTIA: Mobile Jam Session

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Today was the last day of CTIA and Caroline Lewko of Wireless industry Partnership (WIP) hosted a  Mobile Jam Session for Developers.  Caroline is getting famous for these events which she also threw this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and at CTIA in Las Vegas. I was at today’s event and I have to say the praise is well deserved. The Mobile Jam Session’s motto was “No ppt, no ties, no panels” which makes it sound sort of … Continue reading →

CTIA Endorses 2D Barcodes

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Today the CTIA announced a “Camera-Phone Based Barcode Scanning White Paper” (PDF) at the morning keynote. There was a demonstration of scanning a bar code with a camera phone to launch a video on the handset. The white paper describes a somewhat complicated indirect access architecture where the code scanning application sends an identifier to a central “Clearing House” which routes it to a “Campaign Manager” associated with a particular service.  The Campaign Manager then sends a message to the handset application directing it … Continue reading →

Mobile Web Megatrends in San Francisco 8-Sept-2008

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Well known author and blogger Ajit Jaokar is hosting Mobile Web Megatrends, a one day conference on the mobile web in San Franciso, Monday September 8th, 2008. This is two days before the start of the big CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show, also in San Francisco. Ajit’s put together a great lineup of speakers from Opera , ESPN Mobile, Oracle (atomdb), Admob , Moblast, Skyfire, Cellfire, MyNuMo , OMTP Bondi and Gemalto SCWS plus some of my favorite bloggers … Continue reading →